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highplainsdem

(63,283 posts) Wed Jan 25, 2017, 09:53 AM Jan 2017

CNN fires back at Trump on inauguration ratings winner [View all]

Source: The Hill

CNN late Wednesday fired back late Tuesday at President Trump, who said more people tuned in to watch his inauguration on Fox News than "FAKE NEWS" CNN.

“According to Nielsen cumulative numbers, 34 million people watched CNN’s inauguration day coverage on television. 34 million watched Fox News,” read the message tweeted from CNN Communications. “There were an additional 16.9 million live video starts on CNN Digital platforms. Those are the facts.”

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The response followed a tweet from the president praising Fox News for “being number one in inauguration ratings.”

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Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/316010-cnn-responds-to-trump-tweet-claiming-fox-news-had-more

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CNN fires back at Trump on inauguration ratings winner [View all] highplainsdem Jan 2017 OP

Wait until later today when we get the "alternative facts". George II Jan 2017 #1

Yes, RT beat them all NewJeffCT Jan 2017 #11

😂😂😂😂😂 Rowdyag Jan 2017 #2

I went to get tacos for lunch in honor of Trump that day IronLionZion Jan 2017 #3

Ah! Tacos! We were all going to have "taco trucks on every corner" if Hillary won, Tanuki Jan 2017 #13

That would be delicious IronLionZion Jan 2017 #15

...sniff... Granny M Jan 2017 #21

Had my tacos yesterday! colorado_ufo Jan 2017 #26

He really is plugging his propaganda news station. wisteria Jan 2017 #4

This is unpresidented. JudyM Jan 2017 #36

Trump thinks that CNN viewers only count as three fifths of a Fox viewer muriel_volestrangler Jan 2017 #5

+1 Fearless Jan 2017 #8

Winner! raging moderate Jan 2017 #20

You win the thread (n/t) leftynyc Jan 2017 #27

CNN late Wednesday fired back late Tuesday mobeau69 Jan 2017 #6

We are being distracted from important issues. Yonnie3 Jan 2017 #7

Yes. But this serves several purposes Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2017 #12

Yes, of course. Yonnie3 Jan 2017 #16

Trump is obsessed with this crap. dalton99a Jan 2017 #18

+1 uponit7771 Jan 2017 #32

So, don't see the actual numbers. $34 million what? Close enough - but Laura PourMeADrink Jan 2017 #9

What's with the dollar sign? leftynyc Jan 2017 #28

we're in a post fact world... Fast Walker 52 Jan 2017 #10

He really has a way PatSeg Jan 2017 #14

They make money off his shit show either way. dalton99a Jan 2017 #19

This is true PatSeg Jan 2017 #38

If you add up both MSNBC and CNN they crushed Fox news titaniumsalute Jan 2017 #17

What a freaking petty, stupid, disgraceful moron onetexan Jan 2017 #22

He is worried about ratings? itcfish Jan 2017 #23

This message was self-deleted by its author randome Jan 2017 #24

Isn't there some rule about promoting one business over another OKNancy Jan 2017 #25

Especially one like Fox, whose second-to-Murdoch largest shareholder Tanuki Jan 2017 #31

He doesn't follow rules, of course. They don't apply to him. JudyM Jan 2017 #37

Even... jaxind Jan 2017 #29

Congratulations to bleedinglib Jan 2017 #30

Ratings in Russia were massive though maxrandb Jan 2017 #33

This is actually one of the clearest examples of how he PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 2017 #34

As promised, I covered the TV like a birdcage and went to a hometown rally that day.... Hekate Jan 2017 #35

His troll army is still hard at work. Noticing the comment section LiberalLovinLug Jan 2017 #39